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event in March 1992. Shortly after Southwest started using the "Just Plane Smart" motto, Stevens Aviation, who had been using "Plane Smart" for their motto, threatened a trademark lawsuit, which was resolved between Kelleher and Stevens Aviation CEO Kurt Herwald in an arm-wrestling match, now known
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Reflecting back on that time Kelleher said, "I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried." Kelleher's early involvement in the company was helping the company
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was hired as CEO, but after struggles between Muse and King escalated over the next several years, Muse resigned in 1978. Kelleher was installed as chairman of the board in March of that year and the board appointed him as temporary CEO until hiring
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justice, Kelleher moved to Texas intending to start a law firm or a business. He was a partner in Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Kelleher & Wheatley, 1969–1981. Kelleher and one of his law clients, Texas businessman
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Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
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as "Malice in Dallas". Kelleher lost the match, but was allowed to use the slogan in exchange for a $ 5,000 charitable donation and conceding Stevens' legal claim to the slogan.
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Under Kelleher's leadership, Southwest succeeded by a strategy of offering low fares to its passengers, eliminating unnecessary services, using a single aircraft type (the
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restaurant, though Kelleher and King have both stated that there was no literal cocktail napkin. They originally devised a very simple plan of connecting the
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which made Southwest employees well known for taking themselves lightly but their jobs seriously. His culture-leadership was well-demonstrated in an
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Kelleher was the recipient of over 100 awards and honors in the worlds of business and aviation during his life. Some of the most notable include:
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In March 2001, Kelleher stepped down as CEO and president of Southwest. He passed the CEO role onto James Parker and the president role to
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board of directors for 2011. Kelleher's term expired in 2013. Previously, he had served as deputy chair.
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where he was an Olin Scholar and where his major was English and his minor philosophy, and a
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fraternity. On a blind date at a basketball game, he met Joan Negley who was a student at
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navigate legal concerns and as an advisor to the operation and later as general counsel.
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The Economist Magazine, Obituary, Page 82 of Print Edition, 12th January 2019.
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Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
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Kelleher was known for getting little sleep and for his affinity for
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for outstanding leadership in the commercial aviation industry, 1993.
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in June 1971. The first flights finally took off on June 18, 1971.
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as the new CEO and president. In 1981, after Putnam left to head
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but later some hub flights were operated at airports, such as
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scheduling system used by other airlines in favor of building
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with low-cost air service, patterned largely on California's
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airline businessman and lawyer. He was the co-founder, later
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L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation
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These We Honor: The International Aerospace Hall of Fame
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has also called him perhaps the best CEO in America.
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How I Built This – Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher
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Inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame, 1988.
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traffic, and focusing on secondary airports such as
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Index


Camden, New Jersey
Dallas, Texas
Wesleyan University
BA
New York University
JD
Southwest Airlines
billionaire
CEO
Southwest Airlines
Camden, New Jersey
Audubon, New Jersey
Haddon Heights High School
bachelor's degree
Wesleyan University
Juris Doctor
New York University School of Law
New Jersey Supreme Court
Rollin King
San Antonio
Texas Triangle
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of Texas
Lamar Muse
Howard Putnam
Braniff Airways
Boeing 737
hub-and-spoke

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